Day: October 28, 2024

Poetry

Offenders: To St. Jude – A Petition for Prisoners

BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL In the system, they’re called offenders. No one knows why; the offenses are over. Concrete dorms, three-high bunks, white uniforms, And overhead the sting of fluorescents. I’m not going all Pollyanna here. All of them know the poisonous passions of meth. The stench of blood, the sting of fluorescents, In...

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